Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Is that the first Quick Fire Friday of 2024? It seems so! We haven’t done one since December before the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2023 started. That’s like, three months ago! Yikes! Well, we’re here now. And ready to spread the good word on a truckload of heavy releases! We usually mention singles and EP’s, but sometimes an older album as well! And you know why we do this. Because there is so unbelievable much of great music out there and we can not mention everything. The small thing we can do of course, is another Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday round! A small amount of words to get the good word out! The good word about something heavy and something cool! Check it out below… And we know… There is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

Stash - The Rojo Tapes

Fourpiece Stash delivered their first album called Through Rose Coloured Glasses in September 2022 and re-released five of those tracks almost exactly a year later with an EP called The Rojo Tapes. Not completely sure why they did that, cause the versions are exactly the same. But, they’re damn fine and could use the extra attention! Five gritty and burly stoner metal and sludge metal tracks. A touch of southern, a load of metal and an almighty groove! Dig in to that Stash!

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Sons of Arrakis – Scattering

Back in 2022 they released their Volume I album and it ended up on Number 18 of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2022 according to all your votes. We’re talking about Sons Of Arrakis and they are about to release a new album called Volume II on that fine label called Black Throne Productions. Now, I know, the single has been out for a few weeks. But we find it irresistible and reckon everyone should have Scattering on repeat. Please let me know if you feel the same! And if you think they might get more views now thanks to all the attention for the Dune movies? Let's hope so, cause they deserve to be heard by one and all...

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MaidaVale – Faces (Where is life)

Another single that was released a week or two ago, Faces (Where is life) by Swedish quartet MaidaVale. Switching from The Sign Records to Silver Dagger Records for their new, third album Sun Dog the sound took on an even sunnier, world music and afrobeat vibe. Especially on this first single. And on May 3rd you will get to hear the rest of Sun Dog, and their still entirely groovy take on psychedelia, krautrock and that seventies vibe! It’s all happening!

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Hollow Leg – Poison Bite

This single slash video was released, Yesterday! We’re referring to Poison Bite by the Florida four called Hollow Leg. It’s the lead single for their new release coming up May 3rd called Dust. And we can be sure it will be filled with more gnarly doom and brutish sludge. That doom groove, that massif tone and that unending nod. Get bit!

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Hydra – Into The Night

It’s been out a week! The new three song EP by the Polish four called Hydra. Doom metal, stonerrock, sludge and roll and with such a majestic groove that you will be headbanging as that very first break commences and that groove starts and after that, you are hooked and won’t stop banging along! And then the vocals kick in, immediately taking it into proto and classic heavy metal territory. Out on Piranha Music, the three tracks on Into The Night are pure glittering metal gold!

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Cannabus – Desert Trip

Out… TODAY! The new Desert Trip single by the stoner rock band from Welland, Ontario, Canada called Cannabus! It’s the lead single for their new EP called Other Side arriving April 19th and it’s a scorcher! Once again on that crazy Black Throne Productions label, the new single sports all that seventies guitar work, laced with stonerrock and rolled up into a blues groove. Majestic is an understatement! And did we mention we love all their artwork?

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Iron Jinn – Truth Is Your Dagger (Live At Roadburn)

We already mentioned the first single from the soon to be released Iron Jinn live album. Lick It Or Kick It kicked the door open for that Live At Roadburn album that will arrive through Lay Bare Recordings on April 5th. And to show you more, they released Truth Is Your Dagger a week or two ago as well. It was the first time they jammed it in this particular version… “…way and it just clicked. Special guest on keys Jarno Van Es (since this show a full band member) adds a big scoop of 'Bitches Brew' and he and Oeds dive into some minimal territories evoking a somewhat heavier Steve Reich, since then we dubbed it 'Reich & Roll.' It's moments like these why we believe this record needs to be out there.” As Wout Kemkens stated…

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Redstone – Immortal

And we end this Quick Fire Friday segment with a serious stoner metal kick in the nuts! Out since March 8th, the second EP by French quintet Redstone! Immortal is metal, stoner metal, sludge tones and a few of these more atmospheric passages and more metal, and even a bit of progressive meandering. Immortal sports five tracks and all five have this fierce and feral attitude. Savage, and yes, a whole lot of attitude!  

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Stoner HiVe's Quick Fire Weekend

 

 

Stoner HiVe's Quick Fire Weekend

As you know, sometimes, we need to keep that fire burning! The lava flowing! And dance upon the ashes of all who do not understand what Heavy Music means to us addicts. So, this here, is the start of another Quick Fire Weekend! Meant to spread the word on all that good stuff out there! And we know… There is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Saturday edition of a Stoner HiVe Quick Weekend! And it burns hot like molten lava!

The Bad Electric - Happy Endings Are Overrated

Out since yesterday, Happy Endings Are Overrated by Swansea, UK foursome The Bad Electric. They call it robo punk and sends shockwaves of super sparkling synth work towards you, coasting on an energetic layer of dirty riffs and intense drums. And after hearing these five tracks, we reckon The Bad Electric, should go on tour with the Electric Six and merge some nights, when the moon is full and the crowd extremely wild, into the The Bad Electric Six. Why not? It could happen!

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The Magic Bus – Yarem Yarem

Yesterday we mentioned Beyond The Earth, but there's another project from many of the same members called The Magic Bus. My Greek is still limited to saying thank you, greeting a good day and ordering drinks. O’ and asking for the bill, but why on earth did I ever learn that? But for The Magic Bus you would want to learn more. Yarem, Yarem, is a poem set to music, and part of every poem’s charm is that it’s open to many interpretations! In the band’s mind it is an ode to the fragile but beautiful essence of love through time and hardship. Well, I guess I need to learn more Greek. It seems like a good idea to do this. It seems like a very good idea.

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Sun Q – Myth

You will immediately be sucked into the Sun Q universe with that bluesy album opener Jane Doe. Heading straight for the heart of Myth, a nine track collaborative album by musicians and specialists from various countries. Recorded in Russia, in different studios in search of rare Soviet synthesizers, vintage tape instruments, and anything that could enhance the sound. A diverse array of musicians contributed to the recording, enriching the songs with vibrant strings and brass sections, not to mention unique instruments from all over the world, like Swedish nyckelharpa and African percussion. They even got three different choirs from Russia, USA, and Uganda. If that is not enough to make you check out Myth, here’s one more to get you on board: it might be all over the place, but there’s magic everywhere, and in short: it’s awesome!

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Pharm – The Tower

Vortex was on heavy rotation about a year ago, and the new three track EP The Tower has followed suit the past month. It’s the new Pharm three track, EP, filled with hyper prog,  manic, funky and possibly insane. And that’s not just because it opens with a title called: Infinite Stairway to Madness. Frantic and break neck break back breaks. It’s Pharm and you simply need a dose of this from time to time to get your head working in the right order again!

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WIJ – Oko

Out December 15th on Piranha Music, the new WIJ album Przestwór. And Oko is the first single for this. There are moments when you think this is how Go A should sound, but then you immediately think, no, this is how they could never sound, cause WIJ is way more special. It’s a track you need to put on repeat and listen to the entire night, while typing away frantically at some stream of consciousness poetry about a dystopian society in the future where you are continuously watched by a hovering eye behind you… Or that might just be me?  

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Hypnosaur - Inwazja z Plutona

Out since December 5, the cover version of Kombi’s Inwazja z Plutona by Hypnosaur! Remember that awesome Doomsday album from 2022? Already highly eclectic, this one cover shows us once again that Hypnosaur can do whatever that beast wants! Stonerizing some synth-pop track from the eighties? Sure, Hypnosaur doesn’t even break a sweat! And that video! Haha, awesome!

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Polyfrenetics – DecayDecayDecay

“Polyfrenetics is a three headed troll out of Oslo, Norway who thinks intergalactic sack rock is the best invention since canned beer.” And they’re right of course! And they’ve released their third EP DecayDecayDecay back in October. Six songs about Decay and… err… Love… Or something... Psychedelic punk, stoner prog, it moves in circles, add some space rock and a lot of canned beer, and you know that this third EP by Polyfrenetics is another one of those heavy rock treasures that needs to be discovered by one and all!  

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Throe - O Enterro das Marés

Throe is first and foremost the experimental, ambient, post rock and metal project by multi-instrumentalist Vina. Also a member of Sao Paolo instrumental rock band Huey, the Brazilian explores limits and endings in this ode to finitude called O Enterro das Marés. In this almost thirty-minute-long exploration we get treated to a white-out level of ambient and post rocking beauty, as well as industrial and noisy blackening. Limits are tested, implosion possible, by depths and ranges…

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Narbo Dacal - Elysium Now

 

 

Narbo Dacal - Elysium Now
Piranha Music – 2023
Doom, Metal, Stoner, Sludge, Post, Prog
Rated: ****

I think I mentioned before how much I love Krakow. Spent some cool days wondering around the city, doing stories about the jazz scene, annoying Janusz Muniak, ending up on Unsound Festival, talking to the two death-drone-noise-jazz terrorists named BNNT and standing completely alone in front of Lady with An Ermine by Leonardo DaVinci for half an hour before a next visitor or even security guard enter the museum hall. Suck on that Mona Lisa! But if I had known about Narbo Dacal back then, I would have definitely wanted to talk to this wonderful trio. Back in 2022 we mentioned their self-titled album and that had definite folk touches as well as something black, that black metal touch is still there on their new album Elysium Now, although in miniscule form. The tiny folk element has dissipated completely, but all that sludge and progressive metal that therefor grew, is now so all encompassing, that it becomes this majestic swell of almost overwhelming and noisy earthquakes. Those seven minutes of fourth track The Vase, which incomprehensively fades out at the end though, sports so much beautiful guitar work, that danceable drumming, that luscious bumping bass work and wild and changing vocals. Seductive one minute, enchanting the next and absolutely feral and biting the next. And then there are those high-pitched wraith-like shrieks, puncturing your entire being. Just like those drums towards the end, relentless and penetrating. I just can’t fathom why they decided to do a fade out on that track, unless they want to leave that grand finale that one hopes for, feels coming, for their live shows. I bet that’s it. Damn. Now I definitely NEED to go back to Krakow again, seeing the city, but most of all seeing Narbo Dacal live!

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Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Weekend

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Weekend

Sometimes, we like to keep the fire burning! The lava flowing! And dance upon the ashes of all who do not understand what Heavy Music means to us addicts. So, this here, is the start of the second Quick Fire Weekend of 2023! Meant to spread the word on all that good stuff out there! And we know… There is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Weekend! And it burns hot like molten lava!

 

Molosser Crude – Bye Bye Grace (Live in The Studio)

Swedish power couple Molosser Crude has been releasing some great singles this year, all stonerized delta blues, and Bye Bye Grace will be the new addition to this golden streak! All Live In The Studio renditions, and this one takes it towards something alternative and nineties as well. It’s the heavy version of the Molosser duo that brings dark Americana, a rickety blues, but both incarnations are equally soulful! Visit the Evil Ear website to learn more about both versions of the same duo!

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Jupiter - Uinumas

Hailing from Finland, the trio called Jupiter takes their sixties and seventies rock towards something highly progressive, furiously fusion, wickedly jazzy and fuzzy psychedelic. They’ve been rocking out since 2010 and we only ever quickly mentioned their Iosomnia release from 2019. But their new Uinumas is something else, take the weirdest The Doors tracks, the catchiest Captain Beefheart and twist it all up with a bit of space and stoner. Highly immersive, it really roughs out its very own eccentric universe…  

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Beyond This Earth - The Overseer

From the upcoming album "Portraits of the Absurd" expected somewhere in Autumn 2023, it’s the lead single The Overseer from Greek sludge motherfuzzers Beyond This Earth. Metal, with sludge and stoner overtones until that break and we suddenly get treated to more progressive, nay, symphonic guitar work! Beautifully done!

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I, Captain - Kemisk Välfärd

More Finland! And even weirder! It’s I, Captain and their new Kemisk Välfärd release. For even though this heavy psychedelic nugget has some sweet stoner rocking going on, some doom nodding and some highly fuzzed out moments, there’s also some highly freak out garage, crazy kraut influenced free rock that takes you to entirely different dimensions. With all this good and heavy craziness coming out of Finland, my next campervan tour must surely be through that lovely country! Kippis!

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Ampacity – IV

Out since March, it’s IV, the fourth release by Gdynia, Poland quartet Ampacity. Out on Piranha Music, the album inhabits that adventurous hemisphere of kraut, psych and space rock. The six instrumental tracks distinctly give up their love for the sixties and seventies side of prog. Although the stonerized first minutes of Some Kind Of Glow and later eighties spirit and keywork, sees the four gallantly parade through all the genres you can think off. IV needs to be heard by more! By all!

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Humanoids – Echo Mistakes

There are too many bands called Humanoids. And even though the Swiss born Humanoids have been operating for over twenty years, it’s still crazy to wade through that many Humanoids bands to get to this awesome one. For the four tracks on Echo Mistakes are definitely that! The evocative, big gestured alternative rock, mixed with the stoner sound that became so huge in the early two-thousands, and spacious elements that make it all soar, have that magic element that nobody knows where it stems from. Make no mistake, Echo Mistakes is amazing!

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Hauer – I See Yourself

Named after famous Dutch actor Rutger Hauer perhaps? They are from the Netherlands after all and are definitely as wayward as the actor, we mean the fourpiece Hauer! Energetic alternative rock, indie and stoner all mixed into one hotchpotch and spiced with some post-punkish and highly danceable elements. Let’s see where these old rockers go from here!

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Bunsenburner - Rituals

Closing off the Saturday is Bunsenburner and their Rituals release, which comes out on August 11! Yes, indeed, still a week away! Experimental doom, jazz metal, psychedelic stoner and stonerized free rock. An ever-rotating and expanding hive mind initially conceived and realized by the bassist and producer Ben Krahl in 2012, but now encompasses at least six individuals for Rituals. “Like its predecessor, Rituals was recorded live with a strong improvisational – jazz, if you will – approach, with certain segments and motifs being planned beforehand, but with the main forte coming from open-ended teamwork.” And well, this stream of consciousness rock is the stuff of dreams!

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Narbo Dacal – Narbo Dacal

 

 

Narbo Dacal – Narbo Dacal
Self released / Piranha Music – 2022
Metal, Doom, Prog, Sludge
Rated: ****

There’s definitely a touch of black here, a frosty finger of evil. Offset or better yet, complemented by some natural folk elements and a female voice that can bewitch your soul, enchant your heart and freeze your balls off. We’re talking about the four-track self-titled release Narbo Dacal from the three that hail from wonderful Krakow. Out through Piranha Music, the four tracks do all this on a foundation of progressive metal and sludge thundering. There’s considerable ambition at play here, with the sprawling third track DCCXXXVII, scored by passages of massive guitarwork and savage drums, the vocals once again see-saws brilliantly between tender and shattering. There is a new star in the firmament of all those that seek to bring us folk-inflected prog-infused sludge and doom metal. And this star shines brightly dark and shimmering cold and is named Narbo Dacal. And that’s only the start of it…

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Hydra – Prophetic Dreams

 

Hydra – Prophetic Dreams 

Patryk from Piranha Music pointed out that Polish doom stompers Hydra are about to release their new album Beyond Life And Death. And to celebrate that fact they just released the new single: Prophetic Dreams! Damn freaking good trucking doom, stomping stoner and catchy metal! Diggin it! 

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